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Message: [QUOTE="Purduke, post: 4625498, member: 3568"] Hey, who am I to question the musical chops of the US Southern Command? From The Mercury News: [B]The invasion playlist[/B]. If there’s one thing people remember about the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989-90, it’s that the U.S. military played loud music outside the Vatican embassy, where Noriega was holed up. But what was played? AC/DC has laid claim. The Clash and Van Halen also get frequent mentions. It turns out the U.S. Southern Command actually kept track of the broadcast and included it in the “after action report” for what was known as Operation Just Cause. (That was the whole invasion. The standoff outside the embassy was Operation Nifty Package.) [URL='http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nsa/DOCUMENT/950206.htm']The document[/URL], part of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, lists dozens of songs, many of them with titles referring to Noriega’s situation: [LIST] [*]Danger Zone, Kenny Loggins [*]Give It Up, K.C. and the Sunshine Band [*]All Over But the Crying, Georgia Satellites [*]Cleaning Up the Town, the Bus Boys [*]Run Like Hell, Pink Floyd [*]Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley (They rickrolled Noriega?) [*]Eat My Shorts, Rick Dees (Seriously, Rick Dees. I’d be giving myself up right then. But, hey, it wasn’t “Disco Duck.”) [/LIST] [/QUOTE]